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10/15/2013 3:00PM

Some Schools Rethinking Giving Kids iPads

Tablets and iPads have been embraced by schools as teaching tools, but some districts are changing course, following a series of glitches and students getting past security settings. Stephanie Banchero has details. AP Photo.

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... I ... computer tablets edges of my pants ... have been in grace as teaching tools and by many school districts and but some are rethinking their usefulness after experiencing some glitches ... and the actions of some tech savvy students wanting to Digits I'm Simon Constable ... on national education reporters that new French aero has the story into Johns's now from Chicago ... stop me thank you very much for being map ... thank you for having me ... so which is let's not with embedded in them will get to the ALM that tech savvy but so what one other collections ... well yes the truth out there he and several school districts in the country for the last Angeles which is the second-largest gold district ... ordered AB out and daughter have to plan for billion dollars worth of eye pads ... immediately they really if you click it because kids were able to get around the firewall to protect them from social media and they ... can make your hacked around getting kind of social media they were to push to get into ... an amount that that's the that's the glitch Ametek Sami Paul in in one go that ... aam Waimea rethinking the MEK the smart kids which is what you want to come out of school right you want smart is always going to get around this so ... if you keep of da maybe they want but if you teach him how to do stuff and they can do no effects ... right ... idea ... yet whether there were some other problems from other school districts in North Carolina there was a problem ... with the kids ride their drop in a Catholic area aam you know when they're acutely demanded their backpacks the class was breaking on that ... I can well they were Catholic in fact the ramp up like tablets which are Catholics ... calm a company from the news corp which owns the clarity Wall Street Journal own ... thing and yet you do want kids to turn and be smart to figure out ... ways around the ALM ... that technology and they were able to do that ... but parents are worried of course the kids kids are able to access think they can be accessed E ... on AG is for them I can ... I haven't had school thrust into this too fast ... yes I mean a lot of critics would say that the school district didn't really look into what can happen before they rushed into a ... I mean you know and I can anybody do it and I pad or has the Tablet knowledge that they can break if you drop and they can bring ... so on in a lot of cricket one tree looked like the school district figure out a way to make these down ... tablets more safe by protecting and in some way ... for an Federator way to make sure the kids can hack around the fire wall ... I you know in their thing technology education for decades the kids of all we figured out a way around the technology ... to help spread out on an airplane to stop them ... so ... you know they're they're great uses for technology there's lots of competition the country that are using it for trade purposes ... there are other school districts that I would say they rushed in without really looking into the efficacy of it ... that when one of things I know is is always skepticism and in a school room about new technology Imam oh one ... count dieters can now ... had been in and a mass market way ... and all schools that are now we deftly don't one using us as a pencil ... and some paper and and and go to get to do this on to soften and I met seemed to be ... you know ... the way in schools and sat out the shouldn't schools to say look this is just one of the things that can happen ... and we just kinda half the roll with it ... I mean yes that really I think their calculations the perfect example of that the belief that we construct education ... and kids use all the time now that the isn't even on standardized testing many cases ... with the I pad chair With Tablet Recap unaided schools are being pinched a like for money right now ... that people are looking ten billion dollars pedicure now like a sane way to make you we've used it for different purpose ... can we hire more teachers can we've given market your race to the greedy ... me I think it's a matter of how are you spending your money if we don't have that much money in education ... some critics with ... an interesting stuff it often does come down to the money stuff and a bunch of ... we appreciate your time ...